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Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, Calif.) was recommended to serve as a Member of the House Agriculture Committee. Garamendi, a lifelong rancher and farmer, will join in bicameral negotiations on the farm bill, which could be voted on by the House in December.
"I didn't enter Congress to twiddle my thumbs and sit quietly in the background. I must be where the needs of my district are and that's in the final negotiations for the five-year farm bill. I want to thank Speaker Boehner and Leader Pelosi for giving me this opportunity to serve where I am needed," said Congressman Garamendi.
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"Passing a good farm bill is very important to the family farmers in my district, and the nutrition assistance in the farm bill provides vital help to struggling families throughout California," Garamendi added. "As a farmer and rancher, I know we need to get this done, and I will work around the clock to make sure California specialty crops and commodity programs are protected."
To join the Agriculture Committee, Garamendi is required to resign from the House Natural Resources Committee, which he did. Committee appointments for the new 113th Congress have not been announced. Garamendi continues to serve on the House Armed Services Committee in the current Congress.

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I have always loved saddle shoes, had them in high school and still have a pair now.
See how 12 architects used low-cost, environmentally-friendly shipping containers as modern alternatives in home design and architecture.
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What a great example of re-use, homes made out of shipping containers.
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Alternatives to traditional architecture, shipping container homes are cost-effective, socially conscious and a really cool idea.
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Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, wins @DesignMuseum #DesignsoftheYear. What's your verdict? pic.twitter.com/O5wpVnpJ5M
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This building reminds me of the former TWA Terminal by Eero Saarinen at JFK Int'l Airport in NYC.
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I remember when Hello Kitty was a young company. They exhibited in the old Coliseum in NYC where the wholesale shows were held before the Javits Center was built. It It is a wholesale, retail and consumer miracle that it has lasted so many decades or that it has had a second coming.
Downtown Los Angeles's historic core is about to get its first major museum, if that's what you want to call it.
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Only minutes on the freeway from Malibu and Rodeo drive, downtown Historic Los Angeles is a million miles away. Its core is about to get its first museum. Although personally, I think Downtown LA, itself is a museum.
A CT scan machine offers a close look at how fire ants grip each other at a force of 400 times their body weight to build waterproof rafts to stay alive.
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I am not If you were browsing the internet at all this past weekend, there's a good chance you came across Google's ubiquitous logo at some point during your travels. What you didn't notice, however, is the fact that Google adjusted the letters in its logo ever so slightly—and it actually makes a pretty huge difference.
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I am not sure who it makes a big difference too. I cannot even tell without being shown it.
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Taiwan's Rainbow Village is so beautiful to look at. The colors are amazing.
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Massimo and Lella Vignelli, founders of Vignelli Associates, received the 1982 AIGA Medal for their prodigious and consistently excellent designs, across a wide range of disciplines: industrial and product design, graphic design, book design, magazine and newspaper design, packaging design, interior and exhibit design, and furniture design.
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Funky illustration based on famous building.
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Forever loved by everyone. Milton Glaser's iconic campaign to boost the image of New York which was less than stellar at the time. It worked!
We've known about Matt's talents for sometime and are really happy to show off this one. A lovely animated short giving context to - Echo+Repeat
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Flowers are like angels incarnate.
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Shigeru Ban is a man who is an architect for the people not just part of that elite group of bow tied (males). Architects were considered something for the wealthy only. Ban has been involved in numerous disaster relief projects besides condos and other prestigious work.
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Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"-educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences.
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OLIVER LA FARGE (1901-1963) first traveled to Navajo territory on a Harvard archaeological dig. Laughing Boy was his first novel.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
He was riding the hundred miles from T'o Tlakai to Tsé Lani to attend a dance, or rather, for the horse-racing that would come afterwards. The sun was hot and his belly was empty, but life moved in rhythm with his pony loping steadily as an engine down the miles. He was lax in the saddle, leaning back, arm swinging the rope's end in time to the horse's lope. His new red headband was a bright colour among the embers of the sun-struck desert, undulating like a moving graph of the pony's lope, or the music of his song
Nashdui bik'é dinni, eya-a, eyo-o . . . Wildcat's feet hurt, eya-a, eyo-o . . .'
Rope's end, shoulders, song, all moved together, and life flowed in one stream. He threw his head back to sing louder, and listened to the echo from the cliffs on his right. He was thinking about a bracelet he should make, with four smooth bars running together, and a turquoise in the middle if he could get the silver. He wished he could work while riding; everything was so perfect then, like the prayers, hozoji nashad, travelling in beauty. His hands, his feet, his head, his insides all were hozoji, all were very much alive. He whooped and struck up the Magpie Song till the empty desert resounded
A-a-a-iné, a-a-a-iné, Ya-a-iné-ainé, ko-ya-ainé . . .'
He was lean, slender, tall, and handsome, Laughing Boy, with a new cheap headband and a borrowed silver belt to make ragged clothes look fine. At noon, having no money, he begged coffee from a trader at Chinlee and went on, treasuring his hunger because of the feasting to come. Now he began to meet Navajos of all ages, riding to the dance. The young men bunched together a line of jingling bridles, dark, excited faces, flashing silver, turquoise, velveteen shirts, dirty, ragged overalls, a pair of plaid calico leggins, a pair of turkey-red ones. Some of them were heavy with jewelry; Horse Giver's Son wore over four hundred dollars in silver alone; most of them had more than Laughing Boy. They stopped to look at his bow-guard, which he himself had made. I am a good jeweller,' he said, elated; I make silver run like a song.' You should make a song about yourself,' they told him, and teach the burros to sing it.' Have you had any rain up by T'o Tlakai?' No, it is just like last year. It is the devil. The grass is all dried up and the sheep are dying.' They had a cloudburst over by T'isya Lani. It washed out the dam.' It washed out the missionary's house, they say. His wife ran out in something thin and got wet, they say.' Ei-yei!' Tall Hunter and his wife drove past in a brand-new buckboard behind two fast-trotting, grey mules. He owned over five hundred head of horses, and his wife had thick strings of turquoise and coral around her neck. His brother is in jail for stealing cattle, they say.' What is jail?' asked Laughing Boy. Slender Hair explained: It is something the American Chief does to you. He puts you in a room of stone, like a Moqui house, only it is dark and you can't get out. People die there, they say. They haven't any room; they can't see anything, they say. I do not like to talk about it.' Laughing Boy thought, I should rather die. He wanted to ask more, but was ashamed to show his ignorance before these southern Navajos, many of whom wore hats like Americans, and who knew so much of Americans' ways. They raced. His horse was tired, but it won by a nose, which was just as well, since he had bet his bow-guard. Now he had six dollars. He hoped there would be gambling. Tsé Lani showed a distant bonfire in the dusk, with mounted Indians moving in on it like spokes of a wheel. About two hundred young men came together half a mile away, making their ponies prance, exchanging greetings. Crooked Ear carried the ceremonial wand. Now they all lined up, with the dull, red sunset behind their black figures. They started going like getting off to a race, right into a gallop, yelling. Over by the fire was shouting, and another line tearing towards them. The world was full of a roar of hooves and two walls of noise rushing together, the men leaning forward over their horses' necks, mouths wide. E-e-e-e-e!' They met in a great swirl of plunging, dodging horses, and swept on all together, whooping for dear life, with the staff in front of them, almost onto the fire, then dissolved with jingling of bits, laughter, and casual jokes as they unsaddled by the pool. The steady motion of excitement was slowed then, in the last of the day, by the rocks and the pinons, by the reflection of the sky in the pool where flat, vague silhouettes of horses stooped to drink. The voices of many people, the twinkling of fires continuued the motif, joining the time of quiet with elation past and to come; a little feeling of expectation in Laughing Boy's chest, a joyful emptiness, part hungeeeeer and part excitement. He tended his pony minutely. The little mare had had two days of loping; shortly he wanted to race her; three days of rest would not be too much. She was his only horse; he had traded two others for her. She was tough, as a horse had to be to live at all in the North country. He ran his hands down her withers, feeling the lean, decisive muscles. In all that section, from Dennihuitso to Biltabito, from T'o Tlikahn to T'o Baka, where he knew every horse by sight, she was the best, but she would meet some competition here. He felt as if she were his own creation, like the bowguard; at least he had selected her, as he had chosen the soft blue turquoise in the ornament. Little, compact, all black save for the tiny white spot on her forehead, she had the ugly Roman nose of character. She was like an arrow notched to a taut bowstring a movement of the hand would release level flight swiftly to a mark. He was thinking some of these things, half hearing the noises of the people. Just like the prayer, travelling in beauty.' It would be good to be a singer as well, to express all these things through the prayers. He would like to know many of them, to learn to conduct the Mountain Chant, and know all the beautiful stories behind the songs and ceremonies inside the Dark Circle of Branches. That would be really on the trail of beauty; to work in silver and turquoise, own soft-moving ponies, and lead the Mountain Chant. Just thinking about it was good. It made him feel cool inside.
Hozho hogahn ladin nasha woyen . . . In the house of happiness there I wander . . .'
All the time he was passing his hand along the pony's neck, along her back, feeling the lines of tough muscles. E-ya, Grandfather, are you going to dance with the horse?' Jesting Squaw's Son called over to him, food is ready.' Hakone!' He returned abruptly to the quick-moving life of the dance. I can eat it. I did not know you were coming.' I came when I heard you were to race your mare. I think there is money to be made, then, and I want to see her race.' They went up arm in arm into the crowd, pushing their way into the circle around one of the fires. Busy housewives gave them coffee, the big pot of meat was passed over, and a flat, round loaf of rubbery, filling bread. The meat was the backbone of a yearling calf, boiled with corn. It was good. He munched joyfully, feeling his empty stomach fill, wadding himself with bread, washing it down with bitter coffee. A couple of Americans carrying their own plates dipped in gingerly. A Hopi, having collected everything he could possibly eat, sat down officiously beside them to air his school English and his bourgeois superiority.
A small drum beating rapidly concentrated the mixed noises into a staccato unison. Young men gathered about the drummer. Laughing Boy might have eaten more, but he left the fire immediately with Jesting Squaw's Son. Some one led off high-pitched at full voice,
Yo-o galeana, yo-o galeana, yo-o galeana . . .'
By the end of the second word the crowd was with him; more young men hurried up to join the diapason,
Galeana ena, galeana eno, yo-o ay-e hena ena . . .'
They put their arms over each other's shoulders, swaying in time to the one drum that ran like a dull, glowing thread through the singing, four hundred young men turning loose everything they had. A bonfire twenty feet long flared to the left of them. Opposite, and to the right, the older people sat wrapped in their blankets., Behind them, men crouched in their saddles, heads and shoulders against the night sky, nodding time to the rhythm, silent, with here and there a reflection of firelight on a bit of silver, a dark face, or a horse's eye. Twelve girls in single file stole into the open space, moving quietly and aloof as though the uproar of singing were petrified into a protective wall before it reached them. Only the pulse of the drum showed in their steps. They prowled back and forth before the line of young men, considering them with predatory judgment. Laughing Boy at the back of the crowd looked at them with mild interest; he liked to watch their suave movements and the rich display of blankets and jewelry. One caught his attention; he thought she had on more silver, coral, turquoise, and white shell than he had ever seen on any one person. He speculated on its value horses she must have a very rich mother, or uncles. She was too slender, seeming frail to dance in all that rich, heavy ornamentation. He wished she would move more into the firelight. She was well dressed to s...
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Faculty Bio–Leo Bin
Professor Leo Bin was originally born on the Sun, and then recycled onto the Earth at Guangzhou, China in August 1970. He graduated with a B.A. degree in Economics from Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, and then worked at computerizing the financial accounting system for PengCheng Co. Ltd., an international trade company. He came to the US in 1993 for graduate studies at the University of Mississippi and earned his M.A. degree in Economics and Ph.D. in Finance (with two minors in Accounting Theories and Quantitative Methods).
Dr. Bin came to the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2001 and is currently an associate professor in the Business Administration Department. His primary teaching areas include corporate financial management (BUS 302 & BUS 502), financial investment analysis (BUS 443 & BUS 505), financial institution management (BUS 445) and capital budgeting (BUS 446). Dr. Bin has published various journal articles about financial analysis and international investment, focusing on exchange-rate risk, interest-rate risk, market risk, political risk, foreign stocks listed in the US market, and the US policy changes in financial reporting practices.
Leo has also been actively involved in serving the business community. For example, in November 2002, he invited and welcomed executive officials from China's Agricultural Bank to Springfield. Professor Bin and Professor Leonard Branson arranged for Chinese bankers to meet with UIS College of Business and Management faculty and the local banking community (Fifth-Third Bank and National City Bank) regarding US banking practices and Chinese banking reforms. Leo is currently the president of the UIS Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society and also holds the candidateship of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute. He is a member of the Midwest Finance Association, the St. Louis Society of Financial Analysts, and the Financial Management Association.
Hobbies: Fencing, watching sci-fi movies & TV series, playing computer games, stock picking, teaching people how not to lose money too fast.
Favorite Words: "Put your mouth where your mind is. Put your mind where your money is. Put your money where your mouth is."


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Several teams and runners are poised for big years
The Section 5 cross country season is underway, and several local teams and individual runners are poised for big years after performing well in 2012.
Coach Bob Stewart's Honeoye boys team is coming off its first Section 5 championship. The Bulldogs will be in position to defend their league and sectional titles, as they bring back their top four runners: David Stutzman, Sam Missall, Jake Vanderbroek and Zach Erickson.
Marcus Whitman's Audrey Button and Red Jacket's Shealyn Doody are both coming off their first individual sectional titles in Classes C and DD respectively.
Midlakes' Mitchell Priebe placed second at Class CC sectionals in 2012 and made it to states.
The Canandaigua girls placed third in Section 5 Class A last year, which was extremely competitive with Penfield and Rush-Henrietta. The Braves graduated some key contributors, but bring back Kennedy Jensen, Dana Garbinski and Mackenzie Hulme. Jensen placed second at sectionals and made a return to Nike Cross Nationals in Portland, Ore.
Here is a look at the local teams:
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class D, Wayne-Finger Lakes Central
COACH/YEAR: Bob Arthur/8th Year
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Seniors Jeff Frelier, Tom Knoerl, Josh Gosper and Austin Brown.
COACH'S COMMENT: These runners should all be under 20 minutes, which will make us a pretty good team. They have all put in some good training this summer, which has them prepared for the season.
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Juniors Alex Williams and Hannah Peck.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Williams was a Finger Lakes Central all-star last year.
COACH'S COMMENT: We have a bunch of good hard-working girls. I hope we can stay healthy and happy.
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class A, Monroe County Div. 2
COACH/YEAR: Matt Ward/13th Year
2012 BOYS RECORD/SECTIONALS: 10-13, 10th at sectionals
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Senior David Wall and juniors Andrew Gwynn, Evan Kesel and Josh Emerson.
COACH'S COMMENT: The boys will call on some experienced runners to lead the squad this season as they try to take the next step in developing a competitive boys program. If the team can develop a strong pack mentality both in practice as well as at meets, where there are upwards of 12 athletes in the running for top seven, then CA can hope to be competitive each week and to improve on its 10-win finish in 2012.
2012 GIRLS RECORD/SECTIONALS: 20-3, third at sectionals
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Seniors Kennedy Jensen and Dana Garbinski, and junior Mackenzie Hulme.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Jensen is a two-time Nike Cross Nationals finalist who finished seventh in the state and fifth at Nike regionals in 2012.
COACH'S COMMENT: Talented youngsters should add to the depth of the Lady Braves' lineup, which has 30 young ladies on the trails this year. The team hopes to be in contention to win each and every week, as well as at the County and the Section 5 championships.
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class D, Wayne-Finger Lakes West
COACH/YEAR: Seth O'Bryan/8th Year
2012 BOYS RECORD/SECTIONALS: Fifth at sectionals
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Seniors Aamir Zain and Russell Hegedorn.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Zain finished fifth and Hegedorn finished ninth in the Class D/DD sectional race last year.
COACH'S COMMENT: Aamir and Russell have a great deal of experience running in the front pack and competing in championship meets. They both want to end their careers on high notes.
2012 GIRLS RECORD/SECTIONALS: Incomplete at sectionals
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Senior Julia Aagesen.
ACHIEVEMENTS: League all-star in 2012.
COACH'S COMMENT: Julia is a tough runner who will always give a race her all.
OTHER GIRLS TO WATCH: Helen Stern
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class D, Wayne-Finger Lakes West
COACH/YEAR: Bob Stewart/18th Year
2012 BOYS RECORD/SECTIONALS: Won division and sectional titles
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Juniors Jake Vanderbroek, Sam Missall, David Stutzman and Phil Lackey; sophomores Zach Erickson and Jesse Hallett; and eighth grader Friend Olsen.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Vanderbroek, Stutzman, Erickson and Missall were Wayne-Finger Lakes League All-Stars in 2012.
COACH'S COMMENT: We lost our fifth runner to graduation and return all but one runner that won sectionals last year. They're a great bunch of boys that work hard on a daily basis. I'm looking forward to seeing them improve again this year."
2012 GIRLS RECORD/SECTIONALS: Fourth in division
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Seniors Nikki Dobbertin, Ciarra Zagari and Breanna Leonard; juniors Leslie Reitz and Jess VanHouten; sophomore Emily Young; and seventh grader Tracy Stutzman.
COACH'S COMMENT: They're an experienced group that needs to come together and step out of their comfort zones. It should be interesting to watch them progress this year.
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class C, Wayne-Finger Lakes East
COACH/YEAR: Julie Backus/9th Year
2012 BOYS RECORD/SECTIONALS: 13-8, seventh at sectionals
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Seniors Mitchell Priebe, Sean Peacock and William Sheckler; junior Mckenna Middlebrook; and sophomore Collin Farrell.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Priebe had an undefeated season and attended States to represent Section 5. Peacock was an all-league runner.
COACH'S COMMENTS: Mitchell's goal this year is to lead his team and bring them all up to his caliber. Their goal is to stay with Mitchell and work as hard as he does.
2012 GIRLS RECORD/SECTIONALS: 17-3, fourth at sectionals
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Senior Mariah Sergeant and sophomores Haley Smith, Jessica Skellie and Colby Kidder.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Sergeant made the Wayne-Finger Lakes all-star team and received a sectional patch.
COACH'S COMMENTS: The girls have run all summer and are really feeling good and running smart. They did well at leagues last year and are hoping to keep Midlakes up at the top of the list.
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class C, Wayne-Finger Lakes Central
COACH/YEAR: Jody McLaughlin/9th Year
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Seniors Jacob Champlin and Luke Shively, sophomore Hunter Orbaker, and eighth grader Gabe Stash.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Champlin was a multi-meet winner last season and a Finger Lakes All-Star.
COACH'S COMMENT: Jacob has put in many hours and miles of quality runs over his career. He is very excited about the potential this season has to offer, especially now being a senior. He will be one of the best in the league.
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Junior Audrey Button and eighth grader Ellie Schwarz.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Button was the Class C sectional champion and won five league meets last season. She finished second overall in the Finger Lakes Championships, and competed at the state meet in Elba.
COACH'S COMMENT: She is an exceptional competitor. Audrey has been working hard in the offseason to have an even better XC season this year. She sets very high goals for herself and is looking forward to reaching them. She is one of the best in the league, and in all of Section 5.
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class C, Wayne-Finger Lakes East
COACH/YEAR: David Bradshaw/8th Year
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Alex Vandermollen, Chris Toomey, Ben Eckler, Corey Hurley and Ed Ely.
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Jordan Hurlbut, Emma May, Kristen Jones, Mackenna Munroe, Aleece Case, Olivia Harbol and Morgan Page.
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class DD, Wayne-Finger Lakes West
COACH/YEAR: Mike Schaertl/1st Year
2012 BOYS RECORD/SECTIONALS: Ninth at sectionals
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Senior Devan Halton, and sophomores Andrew Doody, Walter Schaertl, Nathan Sawyer and Joey Massaro.
COACH'S COMMENT: A solid group of underclassmen boys will be looking to senior Devan Halton to lead them this year. Andrew Doody looks to be the fastest on the team in his first year on cross country.
2012 GIRLS RECORD/SECTIONALS: Fifth at sectionals
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Juniors Shealyn Doody, Taylor Strub, and freshmen Maggie Dorgan, Eden Lyn Thomas and Corrinne Perry.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Doody won Class DD sectionals.
COACH'S COMMENT: It's a very young team with Maggie and Shealyn the only returning runners.
CLASS/LEAGUE: Class A, Monroe County Div. 1
COACH/YEAR: Bob Goodell
2012 BOYS RECORD/SECTIONALS: 15-8, eighth at sectionals
TOP BOYS RUNNERS: Seniors Luke Shanahan, Nathan Yost, George Mertens and Jason Hall.
ACHIEVEMENTS: Yost placed 13th at sectionals last fall, Shanahan placed 24th, and Mertens placed 26th.
COACH'S COMMENT: "As seniors they have set a goal to be in the top group of runners in Section 5."
2012 GIRLS RECORD/SECTIONALS: 13-10, eighth at sectionals
TOP GIRLS RUNNERS: Senior Kate Erickson and Megan Bellinger, and juniors Aly Fries and Maria Bellavia.
ACHIEVEMENTS: A part of Victor's top seven in 2012.
COACH'S COMMENT: "They have all had good summers of training and are much stronger than last season."


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The dramatic rise in downy mildew problems on a number of vegetable crops in the upper Southeast in 2004, followed by continuous problems since, is eerily similar to the spread of Asian soybean rust on beans.
The fungi that cause the two diseases are dramatically different. However, how downy mildew and soybean rust form and spread are not all that different. Downy, like soybean rust, being airborne most frequently begins on the upper leaves of vegetables from cucumbers to watermelon, spreads rapidly throughout the crop and robs the host plant of nutrients.
In vegetable crops, especially melons, flavor is also negatively affected.
Like soybean rust, downy mildew spores can be transmitted hundreds of miles in a relatively short period of time. One predictive model indicates downy mildew spores may move in windy, cloudy weather as much as 1,000 miles in 48 hours.
Since scientists have been closely tracking movement of the disease, it appears downy mildew spores move more rapidly from south to north than do soybean rust-causing spores.
In fact, late in the past few seasons, downy mildew has moved fairly dramatically from north to south, which is usually not characteristic of soybean rust.
Neither downy mildew nor Asian soybean rust can over-winter without a live host. Though live rust spores have been documented to survive winter as far north as Montgomery, Ala., central and north Florida are more likely the northern edge of winter survival for both diseases.
In 2007, downy mildew was first detected in vegetable crops in and around Immokalee, Fla. in early March. Located near the southwest Florida coast, Immokalee is a center for vegetable production. Cucumber and squash were affected around Immokalee with disease reaching moderate to high levels in some older fields. Incidence and severity were heavy in some locations.
At about the same time, the disease was reported on vegetable crops near Palm Beach on Florida's east coast and in cucumbers and melons near Homestead in south Florida. From these beginnings in 2007, the disease spread northward, though just how it did so isn't so clear.
In early June the disease was reported in Ohio and later in Michigan and mid-June it was detected in several fields in eastern, North Carolina. Unlike soybean rust there is no sophisticated system of sentinel plots to track movement of the disease. And, in the case of the North Carolina finds, it appeared the disease had been active for some time prior to being reported.
While downy mildew has not proven to over-winter further north than central Florida, some contend it has over-wintered in greenhouse crops as far north as Canada. And, there is some contention that the June outbreaks recorded in Michigan may have spread south from disease innoculum that came from over-wintering spores in Canadian greenhouses.
Clemson University Plant Pathologist Tony Keinath says efforts are under way nationwide to develop a tracking system, using a similar system to the one used to track movement of Asian soybean rust. "North Carolina is currently seeking funding to establish a nationwide sentinel system to track downy mildew movement. South Carolina was one of five states that used a small-scale model of the sentinel system for tracking downy mildew movement in 2007," Keinath adds.
The network of sentinel plots to track soybean rust stretches from Florida to Canada and has been one of agriculture's most untold success stories. Modern technology has allowed scientists to communicate almost instantly when rust is found. In turn scientists have made this information available to growers almost as instantly.
In an ideal situation, vegetable and row crop pathologists could work together in side by side sentinel plots of soybeans and vegetables to monitor movement of both diseases. Both rust and downy mildew are very manageable with a number of proven fungicides. The key is to know when, or if, to treat without wasting the high cost of manpower and fungicides. In soybeans, researchers have been highly successful in providing growers with plenty of advance warning to treat and protect soybeans from damage. In vegetable production, the communication system has not been so effective.
In 2004, downy mildew was primarily a disease problem on cucurbit crops in the Southeast. Why it spread dramatically northward in 2005, 2006, and again this past crop season has not been determined.
Neither has why the disease burst onto the scene with such voracity in 2004. There is some contention that a huge buildup of innoculum in the Southeast in 2004, led to spread of the disease northward in subsequent years, but the disease isn't known to over-winter further north than central Florida, so the correlation of more disease in the south to more disease in the north may not be the primary reason, unless downy disease spores travel much greater distances in much shorter time than other diseases, such as soybean rust.
In South Carolina, Keinath says some of the spread of the disease may be due to different strains of downy mildew. "I stop short of calling these new strains, because we don't have scientific evidence to confirm this," Keinath says.
"For sure the disease can overcome resistance bred into pickling cucumbers and some of the newer disease isolates are resistant to some of the strobilurins and Ridomil that are commonly used to manage the disease," he adds.
"We do still have fungicides that are effective against downy Mildew," Keinath stresses. "In our tests Tanos, Previcur Flex and Ranman have all performed well against downy mildew. Tanos is a combination of a strobilurin-like material and a material outside the strobilurin family. The other two fungicides are new materials," he says.
Initially, scientists thought the heightened problems with downy that occurred in 2004 was limited to cucumbers. Subsequent research has shown the same organism also attacks other cucurbit crops.
Keinath says exactly why the disease manifested in 2004 is not certain. Some contend it is a new strain that came in from Cuba or Mexico with a series of tropical storms and perhaps spread dramatically northward by megastorm Katrina. "We do know that since 2004, the disease has been more aggressive," he adds.
"In South Carolina we had more problems with downy mildew in the fall than in previous years. We had a warmer than usual fall, and to me, downy mildew is a warm-season disease, so the late season infections were not a surprise to me, though some growers were either surprised by its occurrence late in the season or just hesitant to use expensive fungicides this late in the year," Keinath concludes.
Keinath says it is a common misconception that downy mildew needs rainfall to form. The disease has to have moisture, but in the fall, heavy dew is common and sufficient to supply the moisture needed for the disease to form.
For 2008, growers are urged to either scout their crops carefully for downy mildew or to treat these high dollar value crops with fungicides. Hopefully, researchers in the Southeast will find funding to establish a monitoring system that will provide growers with ample warning, giving growers more flexibility in management strategy for downy mildew.
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SOMERS, N.Y. – As the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sends a team to investigate the explosion near the Harlem 125th Street Metro-North station Wednesday, Westchester residents speculated about the cause of the tragedy.
The explosion killed two people and injured as many as 18.
Paul Sussmann of Somers said all of the gas and water lines in New York City are so old that the explosion Wednesday didn't surprise him.
"My first reaction was what a tragedy, but I'm not surprised," he said.
Metro-North workers have cleared debris from the tracks and inspected them for track and third rail integrity.
Full Hudson, Harlem, New Haven Line service has been restored into and out of Grand Central Wednesday night. Crowding and delays should be expected.
Train speeds may be reduced near the explosion site to protect nearby rail workers and to limit vibrations near the explosion site.
L. Meyer of Goldens Bridge said she heard about the explosion from a co-worker, who thought it may have been an attack. However, when she listened to Mayor Bill DeBlasio's press conference at noon on NPR radio she said she learned it was apparently the result of a gas leak.
Atsuko Evans, who took the Metro-North Harlem line into Manhattan Wednesday said she was surprised to hear of the explosion. While it caused limited service Wednesday morning and afternoon, the White Plains resident said she just hoped people injured in the explosion were OK.
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An inspiring crowd of LGBT students and allies rallied at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Monday, April 20th, 2009 to demonstrate their support for key legislation to honor Harvey Milk and to increase access to mental health services for at-risk youth. Youth activists traveled from as far as San Diego to attend the annual event, many traveling by bus through out the night.
Outspoken and inspiring, these fierce youth activists passionately shared their stories and called on lawmakers to make California's schools safer. Student speakers were joined on stage by trail-blazing LGBT legislators, including Senator Mark Leno, Senator Christine Kehoe and Assemblymembers Bonnie Lowenthal and Tom Ammiano.
Following the rally, youth went in small groups to meet with elected officials representing their hometowns. In total they met with an impressive 56 legislative offices! In the meetings, students shared their stories of harassment, bullying and discrimination in school, reminding lawmakers that much work still needs to be done to insure that California's schools are safe places to learn for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender-nonconforming students.
Youth activists asked lawmakers to pass the Harvey Milk Day Bill (SB572) in order to educate all Californians about the important contributions of LGBT leaders to our state's history. Clearly inspired by Milk, the first openly gay man elected to a major public office, students created signs honoring the legendary leader with phrases like "We are all Harvey Milk" in English and Spanish.
An overwhelming number of students had very personal reasons for imploring state legislators to pass The Mental Health Services for At-Risk Youth Bill (SB 543). This important bill would allow youth ages 12-17 to consent to mental health treatment or counseling without parental permission. Requiring parental consent is a major barrier for LGBT youth who can find themselves in emotionally damaging and sometimes physically threatening situations if they come out to their parents prematurely and without support. Student after student spoke about times when they were seriously depressed or suicidal but were unable to seek counseling because they weren't ready or didn't feel safe coming out to their parents. They urged their representatives to address this issue by passing SB 543.
Student leaders also conducted successful meetings with the California Department of Education and California School Boards Association, reminding them once again that it is not enough to pass laws protecting LGBT students; the laws must be enforced!
Prior to Monday's activities, over 60 youth leaders attended an intensive 3-day training called the GSA Advocacy & Youth Leadership Academy (GAYLA). This training covered the legislative process, policy and administrative advocacy, media activism, and other important leadership skills for students working to fight homophobia and transphobia in school.


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On 2015 or: Where Have The Posts Gone?
It is 2015 and, as I do every year, I attempt to map out our future for the upcoming months. With the recent past being fairly quiet (i.e., scant posting), this leaves Los Angeles, I'm Yours in a very peculiar position: what is our future? Where are we going? How does the current run affect the future?


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Jacob Edinger gets first gobbler
Jacob Edinger, age 6, shot his first spring gobbler on saturday, April 28 while hunting with his dad. Jacob's turkey had a 9 1/2" beard and weighed 21 pounds. Jacob is a first grader at the Kane Elementary School and is the son of Dan andJanell Edinger of Kane.


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Mulberry Tree Ring Original Woodblock Art Print
Made By: LintonArt
Like a fingerprint from mother nature. This graphic wood print was stamped by hand using the traditional wood block method from a cross-section cut of a fallen mulberry tree, bearer of fruit with leaves as the sole source of food for silkworms. Counting the rings on a slice of tree trunk from the center pith to the outer bark will reveal the tree's age. From the looks of it, this tree was nearly a century old. Which is pretty impressive. You can see where branches were located when the tree was younger by looking for v-shaped notches in the rings. Uneven rings may indicate when a tree had to bend in one direction to the the most sun. True to nature, each print may vary ever-so-slightly.
– Printed on 100 lb. acid-free archival paper
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration are telling parents to stop using sleep positioners immediately. The foam positioners, which are intended as an anti-SIDS device that keeps babies from rolling on to their stomachs, actually pose a suffocation hazard.
Twelve infant deaths over the last 13 years have been blamed on the positioners, and the agencies have received many more reports of parents finding their babies in hazardous situations when they rolled on their side or stomach. Although many parents believe the positioners will protect their child from SIDS, and some manufacturers make such claims, there haven't been any studies that link them with safer sleep, said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner and a pediatrician.
Plus: AAP Advises Against Crib Bumpers
Sleep positions come in both wedge and side bolster form, but parents are advised against using either. Babies should always be put to sleep on their back, with no pillows, blankets or stuff animals in the crib.


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Oldie but goodie: 10 questions for Gina Kolataby Rachel
I took a week off work this week, but it's more like a staycation than a vacation. The pregnant foster cat was considerate enough to give birth yesterday morning, so now I can get to that impossibly long to-do list I've been mentally tabulating since, oh, February. I probably won't be online much this week, so I thought it would be a good chance to revisit some of the more popular posts featured on the blog in the three-plus years it's been online. The first to be (re)featured is this November, 2007 interview with Gina Kolata, award-winning science and medicine reporter with The New York Times and author.
Gina Kolata is an award-winning science and medicine reporter for The New York Times and the author of many books, including, "Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead", "The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine", "Sex in America", the best-selling "Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It" , and "Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise."
Her new book is "Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss — and the Myths and Realities of Dieting."
Kolata's career in journalism began when she joined Science magazine in 1971, where she selected reviewers for manuscripts. She eventually became a writer and then senior writer. She also wrote for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including Science Magazine, Smithsonian, GQ and Ms. Magazine. She earned her bachelor's degree in microbiology and her master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland. She studied molecular biology at M.I.T. in a Ph.D. program.
In Ultimate Fitness, you set out to discover the truth of the exercise industry and found much of fitness claims to be misleading. In your most recent work, Rethinking Thin, you blast those in the obesity industry, who promote the idea that overweight is unhealthy and diet and exercise to be effective. What prompted your interest in the study of diet, exercise and weight-loss?
I got interested in the exercise industry because I spend a lot of time exercising and at gyms and I kept hearing all sorts of things that did not seem to make a lot of scientific sense, like the "fat-burning zone." I was interested in diet and weight loss because of my experience as a reporter. I have been writing about major research on weight and weight loss for decades, and these often involved discoveries that seemed pathbreaking. Yet the public, and the diet industry, kept on saying that all you have to do to lose weight is just eat less and exercise more.
What are some of the biggest core beliefs of dieting and weight-loss that you found to be incorrect?
The idea that anyone can be arbitrarily thin is at the top of the list. Then comes the idea that thinner people could easily be fat if they just let themselves go. Or the idea that people gain weight because they have emotional problems and are using food to fill an unmet need. Or that if you just walk for 20 minutes or so a day those unwanted pounds would melt away. Or that if you take junk foods out of the schools and re institute pe kids would not gain weight.
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Blue Planet is the overall name of a series of campaigns set 18 years after the events of FS2.
The Blue Planet project focuses on storytelling first and foremost, detailing a possible explanation for the events in Descent: FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2, and then following it to a logical conclusion.
Blue Planet is very widely known throughout the Hard Light Productions (HLP) community as being one of the best user-made campaign projects of all-time, excelling in story concept, mission design, cutscene use and music selection.
It is 2385, fifty years after the appearance of the Shivans at Ross 128 and the beginning of the Great War and eighteen years following the Capella supernova and conclusion of the Second Shivan Incursion. Using Knossos-derived technology, the GTVA have finally completed the construction of a subspace portal, stabilising the subspace corridor linking Delta Serpentis to Sol, the birthplace of the Terrans. After sending numerous probes through the portal, the GTVA decides that the node had indeed stabilised, and proceeds to send in the real ambassadors.
Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius (AoA), released in 2007, introduces the universe, and describes the struggles and adventures of the GTVA's 14th Battlegroup, an elite force of ships sent on a mission to re-establish contact with Earth. As they take a detour through a parallel reality where the Lucifer succeeded in wiping out Earth during the events of the original FreeSpace, one officer gains insight into the greater forces at work in the fabric of the multiverse.
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Proposal by TDA Investment Group for a Healthcare Campus, a phased development on 50.85 vacant acres, consisting of the following uses: 1) a 280-bed, 5-story with penthouse hospital; 2) five, 2 to 4-story medical office buildings medical office buildings, ranging in size from 40,000 to 100,000 square feet; 3) a 234 -unit, 3-story senior housing facility; 4) a 290-bed, 3-story independent living/memory care, assisted living, and skilled nursing facility; and 5) two, 4-level parking structures. The entitlements for the project include: a General Plan Amendment, a proposed Canyon Springs Healthcare Campus Specific Plan, a Specific Plan Amendment, a Zoning Code Amendment, and an Environmental Impact Report. The project site is generally bordered by Corporate Centre Place to the north, Day Street to the east, Eucalyptus Avenue to the south, and Valley Springs Parkway to the west
Proposal by Hillwoood Enterprises L.P. and Magnon Company for a General Plan Amendment, Tentative Parcel Map No. 36879, Minor Conditional Use Permit, Design Review, Variance for reduced number of parking spaces, Grading Exceptions for creation of slopes in excess of 20 feet in height, and an Environmental Impact Report for the construction of two buildings, 1,012,995 and 352,174 square feet, proposed to operate as a distribution center, on approximately 76 gross acres, located west of Sycamore Canyon Boulevard at the western terminus of Dan Kipper Drive, west of Lance Drive, within the Sycamore Canyon Business Park Specific Plan.
Proposal by the Riverside Community Hospital for a Specific Plan and an Environmental Impact Report for the development of a phased campus master plan to guide the future expansion of the hospital campus over a 30-year period on approximately 22.5 acres, currently developed with the Riverside Community Hospital, located at 4445 Magnolia Avenue
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On March 26, 2013 the City Council approved the California Baptist University (CBU) Specific Plan. The CBU Specific Plan provides a shared vision and context for future development at CBU as well as defines the development framework for the Specific Plan area, and establishes the design guidelines, development criteria and measures necessary to implement the Specific Plan.The California Baptist University Specific Plan is available by clicking the link below:
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Proposal by Harvey Partners, LLC for an environmental impact report related to the proposed establishment of a commercial/retail shopping center consisting of and approximately 138, 516 square-foot "Target†store, an approximately 124,076 square-foot home improvement center with an approximately 11,557 square-foot outdoor garden center, and approximately 125,608 square feet of within up to 13 additional single and/or multiple tenant retail buildings on an approximately 40 acre site currently utilized as a citrus grove ,located at the southwest corner of Van Buren Boulevard and Barton Road.
Proposal by Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust for an Environmental Impact Report to remove the existing Tire and Lube Express facility and relocate the Garden Center to facilitate a 22,272 square foot expansion on the east side of the existing 125,827 square foot Walmart building, located at 5200 Van Buren Boulevard.
On November 10, 2009 the City Council approved the Magnolia Avenue Specific Plan which includes Objectives and Policies, Development Standards and Design Guidelines to guide future development along the Magnolia Avenue corridor extending from the western City limits to Riverside Community College.
Proposal by Western Realco for an Environmental Impact Report to develop 36.91 acres of an 80.07 acre vacant property with a business center for light industrial, warehouse distribution, and office uses. As part of this project, 36.23 acres would be dedicated to the City of Riverside Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department for incorporation into the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park.
The Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) is now available. The City Council considered and certified the EIR on June 10th.
The Western Riverside Council of Governments and the Regional Air Quality Task Force developed and adopted the Good Neighbor Guidelines in 2005. The Guidelines were designed to help minimize the impacts of diesel particulate matter (PM) from on-road trucks associated with warehouses and distribution centers on existing communities and sensitive receptors located in the region. The City Council adopted the City of Riverside Good Neighbor Guidelines on October 14, 2008.
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William Russell Zutavern, age 70 of Dunning, died Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, at his home surrounded by his family.Funeral services will be Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Sandhills High School Gymnasium in Dunning, with the Rev. Ralph McKay officiating. Burial will be in the Dunning Cemetery with Govier Brothers Mortuary of Broken Bow in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will be Tuesday, Nov. 29, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with the family greeting friends from 5 - 7 p.m. at Govier Brothers Mortuary. Memorials have been suggested to the Sandhills Heritage Museum, Open Bible Church in Dunning, or the Asera Care Hospice in Kearney.Bill was born Aug. 24, 1941, to Russell Conrad and Mabelle (Anderson) Zutavern at St. Francis Hospital in Grand Island. Bill graduated from Dunning Public High School in 1958. Bill married Meredith Datus of Broken Bow Sept. 12, 1959 They made their home on the family ranch near Dunning.In addition to his love for ranching, Bill was an avid sportsman. He also took great pride in his stewardship of the land. Bill was very active in his community and state, serving on many boards including the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the Nebraska Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Board both appointed by the Governor.He was a Sandhills High School Board Member. Bill was a Nebraska One Box Pheasant Hunt Board Member and Foundation Board Member. In 1996, he was a host for the Cattle Baron's Ball. He was on the Volunteer Rural Fire District Board.Bill is survived by his wife, Meredith Zutavern of Dunning; son, Shawn and daughter-in-law Lori of Dunning; daughter, Kelly and son-in-law Frank Leonard of Gainesville, Va.; son, Shayne and daughter-in-law Paige of Lincoln, and daughter Maria of Lincoln; nine grandchildren. Drew and husband JosÈ Dimas of Omaha, Anna of Kearney, Russell of Lincoln, Elle and husband Andrew Worley of Watertown, Wisc., Emily, Shayne, and Elise Leonard of Gainesville, Va., Schyler and Zane of Lincoln; and four sisters, Aileen (Don) Davenport of Missoula, Mont, Irene Owens of Traverse City, Mich., Delilah VanVleet of Kearney, and Georgia (Carl) Plumb of Yakima, Wash..He was preceded in death by his parents; sister, LaRae Allen and brother Richard Zutavern.Published in Custer County Chief, Dec. 1, 2011


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AT&T noted it "plays no role" in what kind of information smartphone apps collect, while T-Mobile pointed out the ways in which that data can be used.This was in response to questions from Congressional Reps. Ed Markey and Joe Barton, leading all of the operators to also admit that they collect such data as well, but really, apps. Apps are a bigger issue. Just focus on the apps. Really. Apps.
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The Gang of Eight and the White House clashed repeatedly in the final week of the immigration reform debate, as a fundamental disagreement over running up the Senate vote led the administration to resist key changes.
The White House grudgingly accepted the border security deal with Republicans, and pushed back at efforts this week to make additional concessions that might have secured more GOP support for the overall bill, according to senators and congressional aides involved in the talks.
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The conflict underscored the extent to which President Barack Obama didn't get all of what he wanted in the Senate bill, as negotiators agreed to a series of compromises aimed at keeping his top domestic priority advancing through Congress.
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The biggest tradeoffs involved border security and the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants.
The Gang of Eight agreed to "militarize" the Southern border, including spending $30 billion on 19,000 additional border control agents — even though the administration said for months that it didn't need more manpower on a border that it already considered secure.
The negotiators also bucked the White House by linking the legalization program to enforcement benchmarks, hiking the fines on undocumented immigrants, lengthening their wait for a green card, tightening their access to government benefits, and shifting to a point system for legal immigration.
In a statement Thursday, Obama conceded the bill wasn't perfect.
"The bipartisan bill that passed today was a compromise. By definition, nobody got everything they wanted. Not Democrats. Not Republicans. Not me," Obama said. "But the Senate bill is consistent with the key principles for commonsense reform that I — and many others — have repeatedly laid out."
The Senate Democrats' determination to protect the path to citizenship — and attempt to line up almost 70 votes behind it — forced tradeoffs that resulted in a more conservative take on reform than Obama initially wanted.
( Also on POLITICO: Senate passes immigration reform bill)
The legislation now moves onto the House, where Republicans supporters will attempt to convince their party to accept the proposal by arguing that it's moved far from what the White House first sought. This public relations fight could be central to whether the bill gains House traction and what further compromises may be needed to muscle immigration reform into law.
"I can promise you that this is not Obama's bill," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a member of the Gang of Eight. "It has triggers, it has border security I could have never dreamed of. It had triggers tied to the pathway citizenship to border security. It has a more legal immigration than the AFL-CIO, Obama would have wanted. This is anything but Obama's bill."
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the bill keeps faith with the president's principles, but "it is a little more centrist."
"The influence of Republicans is clear, but we needed to pass a bill," Schumer said. "The basic concepts have to stay the same. There will be no bill without a path to citizenship, for instance. None."
( Also on POLITICO: Republicans who voted for the bill)
But conservatives who opposed the bill see it as little more than a Democratic wishlist engineered by Schumer and the White House.
"It is fundamentally President Obama's bill," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). "Yes, this is a bill the White House blessed, a process the White House has blessed and a result the White House is very pleased with and they are anxious to see it become law. But it will not."


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A 5-year-old autistic boy who wandered miles from a party in West Baton Rouge Parish was hit and killed by a vehicle heading west on U.S. 190, State Police said Sunday.
The child, whose name was not released, walked away from a Christmas party at a North River Road home in Port Allen about 9:15 p.m. Friday and headed west along North River Road, Trooper First Class Jared Sandifer said in a news release.
The boy then walked down a canefield road toward U.S. 190.
A firefighter who joined in the search for the boy found his body about 12:45 a.m. Saturday. The child's body was in a grassy area beyond the westbound shoulder of U.S. 190 east of La. 415. He had walked about 2 miles.
The evidence prompted State Police to rule out foul play in the child's death, Sandifer said.
Troopers have few leads on the vehicle that hit the child, Sandifer said, and urged anyone with information to contact Louisiana State Police at (225) 754-8500, or their local law agency.
"Troopers will follow all leads in an effort to bring this case to closure and get answers for the family of the juvenile," Sandifer said. "No piece of information should be considered insignificant."


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